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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Biology - Botany, , course: Doctor of Philosophy, language: English, abstract: Forests are an important natural ¿brake¿ on climate change sequester and store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem. The main carbon pools in forest ecosystems are the living biomass of trees and understorey vegetation and the dead mass of litter, woody debris and soil organic matter. The c...

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In his forty-year career as a critic and editor of weird fiction, S. T. Joshi has had occasion to study many of the leading writers of fantasy and horror fiction, and this book embodies some of his most provocative discussions on weird writers over the past century or more.The "golden age" of weird fiction ranged from about 1880 to 1940, and Joshi studies such leading writers as Ambrose Bierce and Bram Stoker, as well as little-known but fasci...

H. P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth-there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 explore the very essence of fear.

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Ramsey Campbell is one of the world's leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of Campbell's rich and varied work, from his early tales to the powerfully innovative stories collected in Demons by Daylight: The Doll Who Ate His Mother (1975) to Silent Children (1999) are also examined in ...

This book describes global aspects in gravitation theory and cosmology within the framework of Einstein's theory of gravity. Topics include results on the structure and topology of space-time, exact solutions to Einstein equations and singularities, the status of quantum gravity, and quantum effects near space-time singularities in strong curvature fields. The author also discusses the nature and structure of space-time singularities, the cosm...

1 Water 2 Analytical Chemistry 3 Advanced Materials 4 Fuels 5 Corrosion And its Prevention 6 Metallic Materials and Green Chemistry

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This 2007 book examines gravitational collapse for graduate students and researchers in gravitation physics, fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.

In the 20 years since Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography was published, there has been a veritable explosion in interest in Dunsany s life and work. And, since much of Dunsany s writing is now in the public domain, many print-on-demand editions of the author s early books have been published in recent years. In addition to new materialby or about Dunsany published after 1993, this second edition includes a considerable amount of material published i...

Part of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, this third installment contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H P Lovecraft's tales as springboards.

The book is a step forward in the direction of hydro-geochemical analysis of selected hill springs. Further, the main focus of the study is the potability of the spring water. In many areas, springs water quality limits to supply of potable fresh water. Hence, to utilize and predict the change in spring water environments, it is necessary to understand the hydro-geochemistry. In this book, Hydro-geochemical characteristics of springs of state ...

Table of ContentsNew Deal Politics in the Correspondence of H. P. LovecraftTyler L. WolaninLetters between H. P. Lovecraft and Orville L. LeachEdited by Donovan K. LoucksLovecraft's Rats and Doyle's Hound: A Study in Reason and MadnessRobert H. WaughLovecraft's Travelogues of Foster, Rhode IslandKenneth W. Faig, Jr.Reappraising "The Haunter of the Dark"John D. HaefeleDepartment of Public Criticism: July 1918H. P. LovecraftA Mountain Walked or ...

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From the publication of his first book in 1905 until his death, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was an immensely popular Anglo-Irish writer. He has long been admired in the realms of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction and was a friend and colleague of writers W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Stephens, and Oliver St. John Gogarty. In recent years he has enjoyed a resurgence as a pioneering fantasy writer and an immense influence on later work i...

The definitive critical guide to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft, the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th century, written by the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar. (Criticism)

This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thom...

S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers has set a standard of scholarship that few have equaled. In The Evolution of the Weird Tale--an informal follow-up to his earlier studies, The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001)--Joshi assesses a wide array of American and British supernatural writers of the past century ...

Ambrose Bierce is well known to readers as the author of The Devil's Dictionary (1906) and numerous short stories, such as the Civil War tales gathered in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and the horror stories collected in Can Such Things Be? (1893). But, in his own day, he was best known as a prolific and fearless jounalist, and in the 40 years of his literary career he wrote thousands of articles for newspapers and magazines in San Fr...